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The path to backwardness and poverty.eace
Says the guy supporting the policy built on myths and fairy tales. ONE time libertarian policy EVER worked ANYWHERE?
Uncle Miltie had his Chile experiment, failed miserably
CHILE: THE LABORATORY TEST
Many people have often wondered what it would be like to create a nation based solely on their political and economic beliefs. Imagine: no opposition, no political rivals, no compromise of morals. Only a "benevolent dictator," if you will, setting up society according to your ideals.
The Chicago School of Economics got that chance for 16 years in Chile, under near-laboratory conditions. Between 1973 and 1989, a government team of economists trained at the University of Chicago dismantled or decentralized the Chilean state as far as was humanly possible. Their program included privatizing welfare and social programs, deregulating the market, liberalizing trade, rolling back trade unions, and rewriting its constitution and laws. And they did all this in the absence of the far-right's most hated institution: democracy.
The results were exactly what liberals predicted.
Chile: the laboratory test